Business and management consultancy and related services

Tender description

KfW intends to conclude a framework agreement with 3 economic operators to review and appraise KfW project documentation for compliance with the environmental and social standards set out in KfW's Sustainability Guidelines, current World Bank standards, and Equator Principles. In addition to review and appraisal services, which comprise approx. 90 % of its requirement, KfW requires training of KfW project personnel (employees and external staff) as well as complex analysis and risk assessment of project environmental and social impacts. These services comprise approx. 10 percent of the requirement. The duration of the individual assignments for review and appraisal is approx. 3 to 10 days each. The duration of single assignments for training and complex analysis and risk assessment will vary. The assignments for review and appraisal will be awarded to the 3 contractors by means of a Cascade mechanism, the tasks for training and complex analysis by means of mini-competitions. The sectoral and geographic variables of the individual assignments for review and appraisal services as well as for training of KfW's project personnel (employees and external staff), complex analysis and risk assessment of environmental and social impacts will vary considerably. KfW does not foresee any specific fields of specialisation. However, generally the requirements regarding both aforementioned kinds of single assignments are expected to arise in the following sectors: 1. Infrastructure (e.g. roads, transmission line, railway, pipelines); 2. Waste management (e.g. waste treatment plant, landfills, sewage networks); 3. Agribusiness; 4. Conservation / Nature Protection; 5. Mining; 6. Industrial facilities (e.g. cement-, steel-, petrochemical plants); 7. Municipal facilities (e.g. water supply and sanitation, health care facilities); 8. Oil and gas; 9. Energy (e.g. renewables, geothermal and thermal power); 10. Water resources (e.g. dams, desalination plants, water management); 11. Financial Intermediaries. Particularly complex single assignments will require specialised home-office support. To ensure the high quality of deliverables needed and effective coordination with the contractor's home office, KfW requires dedicated project management and quality assurance capabilities within the contractor's team. Regardless of whether the individual assignments concern review and appraisal services or training, complex analysis and risk assessment of environmental and social impacts, they will as a rule all be carried out through desk review and occasional field missions to KfW project sites or visits to project partners.